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[Glenn]

It means "bad" or "evil".

 

[Tind]

Hi!
Could someone please translate this to romaji?



Thank you,

 

[Glenn]

It looks like 北国 to me, which would be hokkoku.

 

[Toritoribe]

"Hokkoku" is possible, but "kitaguni" is more common.

 

[benlost]

Can anyone help me with these kanji?

 

[Glenn]

The second one is 第六巻, which means the sixth "scroll". 巻 gets used to mean a part of a story that ends up being its own book a lot. So it could be the sixth book in a series.

The first one is a bit difficult for me to make out, because I'm not that great at reading handwriting, and I'm guessing this is 行書, or "running strokes", a type of semi-cursive writing. I've got 江戸伝承, which would be folklore of Edo, which is the old name for Tokyo, and probably has to do with the period from 1603-1868 (The Edo Period). After that it looks like 大錦手摺木版画. From what I gather, 大錦 is a family name. 手摺 is a handrail, so I may be wrong about that, and then 木版画 is a woodcut (type of picture). After that the only thing I can make out with confidence is 浮世, which is Ukiyo, or the pleasure-seeking lifestyle of Edo Period Japan.

I'm sure one of our resident native Japanese speakers will be able to help you out further.

 

[Toritoribe]

大錦 refers to a size of ukiyoe (24~28cm x 36~40cm), meaning "big size polychrome printing", and 手摺 means "handprinting/handprinted" in this case.

江戸伝承大錦手摺木版画
Edo denshou oonishiki tezuri mokuhanga
Big Size Handprinted Polychrome Woodblock Prints Handed down from Edo Period

秘蔵 艶美浮世繪名画撰
Hizou Enbi ukiyoe meiga sen
Treasured book The Collection of Famous Amorously Beautiful Ukiyoe

 

[Glenn]

Well, I feel better that I correctly identified the characters I did, at least. And I had gotten 秘蔵 and 艶美 with a guess at 繪 the first time, but for some reason when I came back they didn't occur to me, and I couldn't remember. Maybe it has to do with the champagne. :O

Anyway, see? I told you someone would come along who could help you out more.

 

[YuKillHer]

I was doing some cleaning today and I found this necklace which my friend gave me as a gift from Japan. It was three years ago and I forgot the meaning of it. I would be grateful for translating.

 

[benlost]

Thanks guys. Very much appreciate your help.

 

[Toritoribe]

I was doing some cleaning today and I found this necklace which my friend gave me as a gift from Japan. It was three years ago and I forgot the meaning of it. I would be grateful for translating. :emoji_stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

That's 雞 which is a variant character of 鶏, meaning "chickin(as a bird)".

雞 - Wiktionary

 

[Tind]

Hi!
Could someone please translate these 2 to romaji?



Thank you.

 

[MrKanister]

@Tind
"Skejuuru" (Schedule)

and

"Dare mo mita koto nai
Gamenn~~!"

 

[Tind]

@Tind
"Skejuuru" (Schedule)

and

"Dare mo mita koto nai
Gamenn~~!"

ありがとう!

 

[magic]

Hello,
I need this cap tag translated. (click to enlarge)


Thank you!

 

[undrentide]

埼玉縣 Saitama-ken
南埼玉郡清久村 Minami-Saitama-gun Kiyoku-mura
岩瀬 Iwase

---
Saitama prefecture
Minami-Saimtama county*
Kiyoku village*

*Name of Kiyoku village were merged with other two villages and became 久喜町 Kuki machi in 1954,
now it's a part of 久喜市 Kuki-shi (Kuki-city.)

Iwase is a Japanese family name.

I guess the cap is a very old one.

 

[sushiboy]

Hi folks!

I recently came across this copper ashtray and thought it was neat. It has some kanji on it so I have been trying to figure out what it says. I was able to find the kanji on the top pretty easily. It is:

観 view
光 light
記 account/narrative
念 desire/wish, feeling

What am I supposed to get out of that? I am very new to kanji. Do those four have a new meaning when put together?

Then there are the three kanji on the building. The only one that I can figure out is the last one. 大 large

Anyone able to help me out? The one image is just a photo of the ashtray. The other one has three parts. The first is gray scale so that it is easier to see, the second is inverted, and the third is what it looks like to me when I look at the ashtray itself.

 

[undrentide]

Translating kanji one by one does not always work. :emoji_wink:

観光 means sight-seeing.
記念 commemoration (but here it simply means 'souvenir'.)

The kanji on the second photo are not clear enough.
It looks like 大華殿 (old writing often goes from right to left) but I'm not sure about the 2nd kanji.

There seems to be a temple called 大華殿寺 in Nara and I found a photo of the gate way of this temple but the sign on the gate says 大華殿寺 not 大華殿.

And the gate looks different from the one on the ashtray. (Not sure whether because it is somewhere totally different or the ashtray does not reflect the actual image of the gate.)

Anyway, I believe the ashtray was sold as a souvenir.

 

[sushiboy]

@undrentide

Thanks for the info! That is helpful!

 

[Alexia]

some guy said this to me... what does it mean and what is a polite way to answer to it?

 

[undrentide]

日本語 上手いね (Nihongo umai ne) Your Japanese is great.

Polite version is
日本語が上手ですね。 (Nihongo ga jouzu desu ne.)
Much politer:
日本語がお上手ですね。 (Nihongo ga o-jouzu desu ne.)

 

[Toritoribe]

undrentide-san, the OP asked a polite version of her ANSWER.;-)

I would say like this.

ありがとうございます。
Arigatou gozaimasu.
Thank you.

or

いえ、まだまだです。
Ie, madamada desu.
No, it's still not enough.

 

[undrentide]

Oh my... :sorry:
Summer heat killed my brain!
Thank you Toritoribe san for your nice follow-up.

 

[FrustratedDave]

undrentide-san, the OP asked a polite version of her ANSWER.;-)

I would say like this.

ありがとうございます。
Arigatou gozaimasu.
Thank you.

or

いえ、まだまだです。
Ie, madamada desu.
No, it's still not enough.

Toritoribe/undrentide , I beg to differ,
I think this would be more appropriate.
は～、何ぬかしとるんじゃ。。。。です

 

[undrentide]

Toritoribe/undrentide , I beg to differ,
I think this would be more appropriate.
は～、何ぬかしとるんじゃ。。。。です

:emoji_laughing: I should love to talk with you in Japanese some day!
Osaka ben can be quite 'colourful'!